An extract from Kick the Tokoloshe, a cosy-crime novel by Sam T. Mackay CHAPTER ONE: Pinky Pinky Crap. I can smell crap. And fires and paraffin and rotting food. I ease one eye half open. It’s night. The air cold and sharp and seared with smoke. The only light a flickering, half-dead streetlamp down […]
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The Day of the Roaring
This is an extract from Nina Bhadreshwar’s first crime fiction novel, The Day of the Roaring. THURSDAY 7th OCTOBER, 2010 MaMa hands Diana a steaming stoneware cup. She inhales the dark rich aroma, admiring the crema with a wide grin. MaMa smiles, sitting down opposite Diana at the small square table. Rehema had dropped […]
Death Scent
The opening of Kit Morrell’s debut novel, Death Scent, a psychological thriller. Chapter 1 Evan —November, 2012. I have peanuts in my head. Not ready salted or dry roasted but multifocal white matter lesions. These exactly peanut-shaped areas that have set up shop in my brain are the reason that I can smell things […]
A Godforsaken Place
An extract from A Godforsaken Place, an Oxbridge City series novel in-progress. The novel is a prequel to the eco-crime thriller Seven Ways to Kill a City, written on the UEA Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) MA. Two Years Ago At first, his flesh recedes. The skin, delicate and pampered, is trying to escape. She […]
Two poems from IMPLODE EXPLODE
Two poems from Naoise Gale’s first full collection, IMPLODE EXPLODE, published by Beir Bua Press on 2 October 2022. Fred and Dorothy he came back starved and scarred and she loved him. he bought sewing machines and pork chops and snowstorms, shielded try-hards and sickly kids between the winds and she loved […]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo wins Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award
Trinidadian novelist and current UEA research student Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has been announced as one of the two winners of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award, along with Jarred McGinnis. Both are awarded £20,000 and up to a year’s residency with the British Library to develop their forthcoming books, plus the opportunity to showcase […]
John Boyne wins Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year award
UEA alumnus John Boyne has won the Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year award at the An Post Irish Book Awards. John (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1995, and returned as a Creative Writing Fellow in 2004, and as a tutor on the Creative Writing MA in 2014. His first novel, The […]
Son of the Country
An extract from Asun Álvarez’s historical fantasy mystery, Son of the Country. The year is 1589. In a world in which magic and the supernatural are part of everyday life, Martín de Salas, a survivor of the Spanish Armada with wolf-like abilities, is stranded on the West coast of Ireland on the brink of war. […]
True Things About You
An extract from Helen Marsden’s psychological thriller, True Things About You. PROLOGUE Naked, she lies on her side. She’s in the foetal position, then on her back. As she moves, her shiny, coral-pink toenails poke out of the pure Egyptian cotton sheets. Her smooth legs are still tanned from Barbados. She sits and stretches […]
Mummy’s Boy
The first two chapters of Joanne Green’s crime novel, Mummy’s Boy One DS Harriet Chapman took another deep breath and folded her hands in her lap under the table. She didn’t want the tremble in her fingers to give away her fears to those gathered. She sat poker straight and looked ahead of her, […]
